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Prof. Damijan Miklavčič, Research Programme Leader
Born: July 19, 1963, Ljubljana, Slovenia Address: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Trzaska 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Phone: +386 1 4768 456 E-mail:
Education:
1987 B.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)
1991 M.S. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)
1993 Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (University of Ljubljana)
Position: 1993-present Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
1993-1994 Associate Researcher
1994-1997 Assistant Professor
1995-1996 Visiting researcher at the Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
1997-2002 Associate Professor
1998-2019 Head of the Laboratory of Biocybernetics
2002-present Professor
2003-2005 Vice-Dean for Research
2007-2015 Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
2015-present Deputy Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Awards: 1986 Preseren Award for Students, University of Ljubljana
1989 International Award of the Maphre Foundation (Spain)
1993 National Industrial Award of Krka Pharmaceuticals
1995 Award of the Republic of Slovenia for Scientific and Research Achivements
2003 Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Science
2008 Vodovnik Prize for Exceptional Research
2008 Knight of the Order of Academic Palms of the French Republic
2012 IFMBE Vladimir Zworykin Award
2012 Rector’s Award for Innovations of the University of Ljubljana – 1st Prize
2014 Golden Plaque of the University of Ljubljana
2015 Fellow of the European Alliance for Medical and Biomedical Engineering & Science
2019 Honorary Doctorate (honoris causa) awarded by the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 Congress Ambassador of Slovenia for 2021 in the category of scientific and professional events
2021 The University of Ljubljana Rector’s Award for Best Innovation 2021 (shared with Matej Reberšek and Eva Pirc)
Bibliography:
Prof. Miklavcic has authored or co-authored over 1,300 papers, including over 400 original articles in scientific journals (source: Sicris database). His works have been cited over 10,000 times (according to Scopus) / 8,600 times (according to Wos). Together with his colleagues he has applied for numerous patents, of which three international have been granted, along with one slovene (sourced from Sicris). His number of citations (excluding self-citations, state on 25th of March, 2020) is 9,793, and his h-index is 65. Click here for a printout of his complete bibliography.
Additional activities:
• Member of the the International Academy of Science and Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina (link, 2021–)
• Member of the Council of the Bioelectrochemical Society (2009–2017)
• President of the Slovenian Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (2007–)
• Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Slovenian Forum on Non-Ionising Electromagnetic Radiation
• Associate Editor of Bioelectromagnetics (2005–2007)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2002–2014)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience (2004–2013)
• Member of the working group for preparation of the safety standards related to non-ionising radiation at Slovenian National Standardization Office
• Referee for over 50 SCI-indexed journals
• Member of the Council of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia (2010-2013)
• President of the International Society for Electroporation-Based Technologies and Treatments (ISEBTT, 2016-2017)
